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Macroevolutionary patterns in the pelvis, stylopodium and zeugopodium of megalosauroid theropod dinosaurs and their importance for locomotor function (2023)
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Lacerda, M., Bittencourt, J., & Hutchinson, J. (2023). Macroevolutionary patterns in the pelvis, stylopodium and zeugopodium of megalosauroid theropod dinosaurs and their importance for locomotor function. Royal Society Open Science, 10(8), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230481

During the Mesozoic, non-avian theropods represented one of the most successful clades globally distributed, with a wide diversity of forms. An example is the clade Megalosauroidea, which included medium- to large-bodied forms. Here, we analyse the m... Read More about Macroevolutionary patterns in the pelvis, stylopodium and zeugopodium of megalosauroid theropod dinosaurs and their importance for locomotor function.

Locomotor and postural diversity among reptiles: palaeobiological implications (2023)
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Gônet, J., Bardin, J., Girondot, M., Hutchinson, J., & Laurin, M. (2023). Locomotor and postural diversity among reptiles: palaeobiological implications. Journal of Anatomy, https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13833

The conquest of land by the first tetrapod vertebrates represents a key stage in their evolution. Selection pressures exerted by this new environment on animals led to the emergence of new locomotor and postural strategies that favoured access to dif... Read More about Locomotor and postural diversity among reptiles: palaeobiological implications.

The dinosaurian femoral head experienced a morphogenetic shift from torsion to growth along the avian stem (2022)
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Hutchinson, J. (2022). The dinosaurian femoral head experienced a morphogenetic shift from torsion to growth along the avian stem. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0740

"The dinosaurian femoral head experienced a cryptic evolutionary shift in morphogenetic process." The evolution of birds-and their highly derived locomotion-from their terrestrial dinosaurian ancestors has captured scientific interest for generations... Read More about The dinosaurian femoral head experienced a morphogenetic shift from torsion to growth along the avian stem.

Spherical Frame Projections for Visualizing Joint Range of Motion (2022)
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Herbst, E. C., Eberhard, E. A., Richards, C. T., & Hutchinson, J. R. (2022). Spherical Frame Projections for Visualizing Joint Range of Motion. Journal of Experimental Biology, https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.xxxxxx

Quantifying joint range of motion (RoM), the reachable poses at a joint, has many applications in research and clinical care. Joint RoM measurements can be used to investigate the link between form and function in extant and extinct animals, to diagn... Read More about Spherical Frame Projections for Visualizing Joint Range of Motion.

Title: The extinct shark Otodus megalodon was a transoceanic super-predator: inferences from 1 3D modelling 2 Short title: Megalodon ecological inferences from new 3D model 3 4 (2022)
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Cooper, J. A., Hutchinson, J. R., Bernvi, D. C., Cliff, G., Wilson, R. P., Dicken, M. L., …Pimiento, C. (2022). Title: The extinct shark Otodus megalodon was a transoceanic super-predator: inferences from 1 3D modelling 2 Short title: Megalodon ecological inferences from new 3D model 3 4. Science Advances, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm9424

23 Although shark teeth are abundant in the fossil record, their bodies are rarely preserved. Thus, 24 our understanding of the anatomy of the extinct Otodus megalodon remains rudimentary. We 25 used an exceptionally preserved fossil to create the fi... Read More about Title: The extinct shark Otodus megalodon was a transoceanic super-predator: inferences from 1 3D modelling 2 Short title: Megalodon ecological inferences from new 3D model 3 4.

The Anti-Krogh principle: all organisms are worthy of study (2022)
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Clark, C., Hutchinson, J. R., & Garland, T. (2022). The Anti-Krogh principle: all organisms are worthy of study. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, https://doi.org/10.1086/721620

Krogh's principle states: "for such a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied." A pitfall of this approach is it implies the question: if organisms are models f... Read More about The Anti-Krogh principle: all organisms are worthy of study.

A general locomotion control framework for multi-legged locomotors (2022)
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Chong, B., Aydin, Y. O., Rieser, J. M., Sartoretti, G., Wang, T., Whitman, J., …Goldman, D. I. (2022). A general locomotion control framework for multi-legged locomotors. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ac6e1b

Serially connected robots are promising candidates for performing tasks in confined spaces such as search and rescue in large-scale disasters. Such robots are typically limbless, and we hypothesize that the addition of limbs could improve mobility. H... Read More about A general locomotion control framework for multi-legged locomotors.

Multi-joint analysis of pose viability supports the possibility of a salamander-like walk in the Permian tetrapod Eryops megacephalus (2022)
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Hutchinson, J. (in press). Multi-joint analysis of pose viability supports the possibility of a salamander-like walk in the Permian tetrapod Eryops megacephalus. Integrative and Comparative Biology, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac083

Salamanders are often used as analogs for early tetrapods in paleontological reconstructions of locomotion. However, concerns have been raised about whether this comparison is justifiable, necessitating comparisons of a broader range of early tetra... Read More about Multi-joint analysis of pose viability supports the possibility of a salamander-like walk in the Permian tetrapod Eryops megacephalus.

Medical Engineering and Physics bone expert / biophysics Powered by Editorial Manager® and ProduXion Manager® from Aries Systems Corporation (2022)
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Zioupos, P., Adams, G. J., Adams, G. J., Cook, R. B., Hutchinson, J., & Zioupos, P. (2022). Medical Engineering and Physics bone expert / biophysics Powered by Editorial Manager® and ProduXion Manager® from Aries Systems Corporation. Medical Engineering and Physics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2022.103828

Microarchitecture and morphology of bone tissue over a wide range of apparent densities assessed by micro-computed tomography and three different threshold backgrounds-Manuscript Draft-Manuscript Number: Article Type: Paper Section/Category: Regular... Read More about Medical Engineering and Physics bone expert / biophysics Powered by Editorial Manager® and ProduXion Manager® from Aries Systems Corporation.

Walking --and running and jumping --with dinosaurs and their cousins, viewed through the lens of evolutionary biomechanics (2022)
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Hutchinson, J. (2022). Walking --and running and jumping --with dinosaurs and their cousins, viewed through the lens of evolutionary biomechanics. Integrative and Comparative Biology, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac049

Archosauria diversified throughout the Triassic period before experiencing two mass extinctions near its end ~201 Mya, leaving only the crocodile-lineage (Crocodylomorpha) and bird-lineage (Dinosauria) as survivors; along with the pterosaurian flying... Read More about Walking --and running and jumping --with dinosaurs and their cousins, viewed through the lens of evolutionary biomechanics.